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Stitch Raises $10 Million Seed to Extend Services to Emerging Markets
The funding will support Stitch’s expansion across MENA and East Africa, as it aims to simplify and accelerate how financial products are built and launched.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Global
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NOAA Cuts Hamstring Predictions of Global South Extreme Weather
The funding cuts to NOAA have weakened the U.S.’ ability to produce lifesaving weather forecasts for its own citizens and affected the quality of climate reports being produced globally.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, data
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VCMI and Clean Cooking Alliance Partner to Strengthen Carbon Market Regulations in Kenya
"As part of VCMI’s Access Strategies program, this partnership with CCA will support financial market regulators to develop a framework that makes it easier to assess and prioritize which interventions could improve the integration of carbon-backed assets into mainstream finance. . ."
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sistema.bio Signs MoU with Danone to Deploy 6,500 Biodigesters Across Dairy Farms
These systems transform livestock waste into renewable biogas and organic fertilizer, which can be used as valuable resources at farm level.
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- Agriculture, Energy, WASH
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- Global
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Press Release: Quadria Capital Closes Oversubscribed US$1 Billion Fund III to Advance Healthcare Transformation Across Asia
"Fund III will build a diversified portfolio of approximately 10 market-leading companies, taking both significant minority and majority stakes, and further scaling impact through targeted co-investments from Limited Partners (LPs)."
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Gates Foundation Awards $5 Million to Swiss Axmed to Strengthen Maternal and Child Health Procurement in Africa
"By matching government procurement dollar-for-dollar, this grant offers Ministries of Health immediate liquidity and streamlined access to quality-assured medicines."
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India-Based Climate Tech Startup Alt Carbon Raises $12 Million to Trap Carbon in Rocks and Soil
"Founded in 2023 by brothers Shrey and Sparsh Agarwal, Alt Carbon has set a goal to remove 5 million metric tons of CO2 by 2030, with a focus on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) in South Asia . . ."
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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New Report by NIUA and RMI Identifies Key Decarbonization Strategies for India with Potential to Cut 8 Gt of Emissions by 2050
"This report identifies five high-impact decarbonization strategies that, if widely implemented, can cumulatively eliminate up to 8 gigatons (Gt) of operational and embodied carbon emissions by 2050 — nearly three times India's current annual emissions."
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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